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... tears ? For whilst Britannia's flag victorious flies , Who can repress his grief when Nelson dies ? Stretch'd on his deck , amid surrounding fires , There , Phoenix like , the gallant chief expires ; Cover'd with trophies , let his ...
... tears ? For whilst Britannia's flag victorious flies , Who can repress his grief when Nelson dies ? Stretch'd on his deck , amid surrounding fires , There , Phoenix like , the gallant chief expires ; Cover'd with trophies , let his ...
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... tear , For never heart felt passion more sincere ; To nobler sentiments to fire the brave , For never Briton more ... tears inscribes this monumental stone , That holds thy ashes , and expects her own . AN EPITAPH ON A BISHOP OF THE ...
... tear , For never heart felt passion more sincere ; To nobler sentiments to fire the brave , For never Briton more ... tears inscribes this monumental stone , That holds thy ashes , and expects her own . AN EPITAPH ON A BISHOP OF THE ...
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arm'd with virtue blest blissful bodies are dust Briton common jade daring spark Death's pangs dying have little e'er Earth eternal ev'ry fair occasion prompts favor throws fling her back frailties may creep Garrick gewgaw things glories Grave Heav'n injures knows insolently dares Pretend jilting quean lets be upright Lets repent Life's tumults lov'd loves but fools maids At Balls mark the mortal marry Honesty mind MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION move her wings nightly Masquerades Nile o'er our frailties Order of St Pageantry of rank pow'r sublime praise prompts their warm reign rule and spoil Saxon scorn to woo Seraph Shakespeare sickness we ne'er Sometimes she smiles SONNET sorrows to end soul spoil the world's steps of hoary strong-enough fence thee Toils and Death's toys and impudence truth then acknowledg'd tumults to calm twill Tyger velvet pall'd vice weak the pretence WESTMINSTER ABBEY whilst wink by light wretch still bow'd
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Page 18 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Page 8 - From hence he does that antique pile behold, Where royal heads receive the sacred gold: It gives them crowns, and does their ashes keep; There made like gods, like mortals there they sleep; Making the circle of their reign complete, Those suns of empire, where they rise, they set.
Page 9 - As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength; So, cast and mingled with his very frame.
Page 17 - Viscount and Baron Nelson of the Nile and of Burnham Thorpe, in the County of Norfolk...
Page 22 - CORSICA who died in this parish Dec. 11, 1756 immediately after leaving The King's Bench Prison by the benefit of the Act of Insolvency in consequence of which he registered his kingdom of Corsica for the use of his creditors. The grave, great teacher, to a level brings Heroes and beggars, galley slaves and kings ; But Theodore this moral learned ere dead : Fate poured his lesson on his living head, Bestow'da kingdom, and denied him bread.
Page 20 - Kneller, by Heaven, and not a master, taught, Whose art was nature, and whose pictures thought; " Now for two ages, having snatch'd from fate Whate'er was beauteous, or whate'er was great, Lies crown'd with Princes honours, Poets lays, Due to his merit, and brave thirst of praise.
Page 22 - No more the Grecian muse unrivall'd reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay : She felt a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray.
Page 19 - To paint fair Nature, by divine command, Her magic pencil in his glowing hand, A Shakespeare rose : then, to expand his fame Wide o'er this breathing world, a Garrick came. Though sunk in death the forms the Poet drew, The Actor's genius bade them breathe anew; Though, like the bard himself, in night they lay, Immortal Garrick call'd them back to day: And till Eternity with...
Page 22 - Immediately after leaving the King's Bench Prison, By the benefit of the Act of Insolvency, In consequence of which he registered His Kingdom of Corsica For the use of his Creditors.
Page 18 - Chief of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels in the Mediterranean; also Duke of Bronte in Sicily; Knight Grand Cross of the Sicilian Order of St. Ferdinand and of Merit; Member of the Ottoman Order of the Crescent; Knight Grand Commander of the Order of St Joachim; and the Hero who, in the moment of victory,fell covered with immortal glory!